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MONEY DRAWER AND CASH ACCOUNT RECORDER. No. 360,456. PatentedApr. 5,1887..

N4 PETERS, Photo-Limogrnpxwr. Washington. D,C,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES B. MILLER, OF ITHACA, NEV YORK.

MONEY-DRAWER AND CASH-ACCOUNT RECORDER.

i 'SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,456, dated April5, 1857.

Application filed March 1, 1886. Serial No. 193.592.

v.T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES B. MILLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ithaca, Tompkins county, New York, have invented anImprovedl Money-Drawer and Cash-Account Recorder, whereof the followingisa specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure 1 is an elevation of the front end of my box containing mymoney-drawer; Fig. 2, a ground plan, the boX-covcrbeing removed; Fig. 3,an elevation seen from the left-hand side of Fig. 1, the left side ofthe box being removed. Fig. 4 is a partial view illustrating portions ofthe slide-rod, the middle partition, andthe left-hand wall of themoneydrawer and the angled catch that locks the money-drawer. Fig. 5shows the end of the roller j and the attached paper-clamp; and Fig. 6is designed to exhibit the glazed aperture of vthe cover to the registerand the aperture in which the cash entries are made.

My invention relates to the operative machinery, and will be understoodas I describe my invention.

In the figures, @is the box or inclosing-case, made deeper than themoney-drawer b, and it has a hinged cover and lock, as seen by thekey-hole d in Fig. 1. In thisbox so made is the money-drawer b, withoutoutside lock or opening-knob. This drawer is seen in Fig. 2

.to be made with partitions f f any convenient number, for bank-bills orany other articles desirable to be put into the lower part of thedrawer. These partitions do not reach to the top ofthe drawer, but leavea space above them, in which the loose coindrawer c is placed, whichslides on the top of the partitions, aided or not by slideways on thesides of the drawer. This arrangement of the partitions and coindrawerhas long been in common use, as has the bowl-shaped cavities ec, nine innumber, for various coins of different values. At the rear of themoney-drawer is the spring g, whose use is a common onein money-drawers,to thrust the drawer out when unlocked, that its contents may bereached; but I place the spring on the rod g', which has a head, g, onits front end and a ringcollar, g. This' collar g is too large to gothrough the hole made for the rod in the back end of the 'to unlock themoney-drawer.

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drawer, and too small to go over the head g, hence the ring-collarpushes the moneydrawer out until the rod-head stops the action of thespring. By this construction I make a spring for the moneydrawcr littleliable to get out of order, since its position and action are regulatedby the rod, its head,and the ringcollar at the anterior end of thespring. A long middle partition, s, a little higher than themoney-drawer, is at its left-hand side, (see Figs. 2 and 3,) the useofwhich is to give support to the rollers of the paper record, to dividethe money-drawer from the record, con- 'ine the money-drawer on itsleft-hand side,

and to support the locking device for the drawer.

Y The main operative part of my money-box is the long slide-rod c', thatis shown in Fig. 3 to extend from the knob c, outside ofthe front end ofthe box to near thc rear end of the box. It is held in place in frontbya metallic collar, (seen in Fig. 1,) and near its rear end by anothersupport, against which a spring, 0*, acts by one of its ends, and at itsother end, on the rod, by a fixed collar, as shown in Fig. The springthrusts the rod and knob outward and forward at all times; but when theknob is pushed upon, and thus the rod is pushed inward, by the hand ofthe operator the spring is condensed and the machinery in the box ismoved. The iirst action of this rod is The return of the rod to itsanterior place permits the drawer to be. locked whenever the moneydraweris pushed into the box. This is accomplished by a pin, a, (seen in Figs.3 and 4,) projecting out from the rod. The action of this pin (seenclearly in Fig. 4) is that when the rod c is pushed inward the end ofthe right-angled catch a', which is close by the pin, is moved rearward,and that disengages the hook a" of the catch from the moneydrawer, andthus the spring f/ in rear ofthe drawer is allowed to thrust themoney-drawer out of the box the distance of the impulse of the spring,which is sufficient to bring the coindrawer and front bill-partitionedspaces in view and reach. In Figs. 3 and 4 this angled catch is seen tobe hinged to the partition s, and held by it. Aspring, a, throws thecatch into its locking position whenever the money- IOO drawer is pushedinto the box, thus locking the drawer; hence the drawer is locked whenit is closed into the box, and is unlocked whenever the knob c is pushedupon. Farther on- Ward in the rearward extension ot' the rod c towardthe back end of the box there is seen a stud, c, with a spring-click, c,attached to it, which click engages with the teeth of the ratchet j(seen in Fig. 3) of the roller j, on which the paper, after itreceivesthe cash entries, is wound. A pawl or pawls, K, are used to preventbackward motion of the roller j. By this means just described themovement of the paper of the record is effected.

The paper h is a long strip, made in width with suitable relation to theroller j and table i, as shown in Fig. 2, and is in quantity wound outhe shaft at h' in the front end of the partitioned-off record-space, asseen iu Figs. 2 and 3. By dotted lines it is shown to go, when unwoundfrom the shaft h', to and under the spring-clamp z at the front end ofthe table i. Thence it goes over the table and under the otherspring-clamp i', and thence down under the rollcrj, on which it iswound, this movement being by short successive gradations by the rod cand click c and ratchet y" and roller j.

. drawn away the paper can be put'under these strips. At all other timesthey make pressure on the paper.

The papertable t' is a flat piece of board with its ends beveled to suitthe direction of the draft of the paper. Over it is the glazing r,through which the cash entries are visible for awhile, and over itsfront end is the inclined metal plate i", an open space being betweenthe glass and the plate, in which space the cash entries are made. rlhepaper on this table is shown in Fig. 2 to have been ruled bylongitudinal lines for various purposes-as, for example, the numbersgiven the employs of a mercantile establishment using my moneydrawer boxfor the articles and quantities sold,

the amountof cash received or paid out, or other entries made betweenthe ruled lines, as the users of my box may see iit.

It will be seen in Fig. 3 that the bell-hammer rod is made to projectout of the click lr, t0 have a ball-hammer on its end, and thereforestrikes the bell at each time the click falls oft' of a tooth of theratchet j of the roller j. The catch-hook u" is made at its front endwedge shape, so as to be self-acting when the drawer is closed into thebox.

In Fig. 5 is shown the end of the roller j opposite to that shown inFig. 3, and it is 1ntended to exhibit a plate, c, which extends acrossthe face of the roller, held to the roller at each end by pivots '11',and operated by vsprings at each end of the roller and plate,

which springs are bedded in the roller, and it is easy to understandthat by depressing'the side of the plate under which are the springs theother edge of the plate is elevated, so that the end ofthe record-papercan be put under the plate, when the released plate, by the springs,clamps the paper to the roller.

All parts of my improved money-drawer and recorder box essential to itscomprehension are believed to be described.

Vhat I consider novel and claim is- 1. In an inclosed or casedmoney-drawer, the knob c and the slide-rod c, provided with a pin, a,lprojecting out of the slide-rod in the line of its length, which pinopens or unlocks the hook n of the lever w/ from the moneydrawer I), iucombination with the lever a', the drawer b, and the box or case c.

2. In a moneydrawer with easlraccount record inclosed in a ease or box,the ,knob c, slide-rod c', pine, angled lever a', its hook n, and themoney-drawer b, in combination with the click c, ratchetj, roller j,pawl 7c, paper h, and the table 3. In a cash-record, the p ulling-knobc, sliderod c', directly connecting the knob to the click c', attachedto the slide-rod, andthe click c", in combination with the ratchet j',the roller j, paper lz, table i', roller 7M, glazing i', metal plate i",and case or box a.

CHARLES B. MILLER.

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